Websites With Animation

By bringing animation to your website you are already increasing your chances of drawing and maintaining the user’s attention. So why not consider using it on your own website. There are many simple animations for a website and the elements on the page such as a border, zoom, fade or a shake on an button for example can be used. Animations that attract attention can be used in many parts of your design, including:

• Forms;
• Menus;
• CTA;
• And many more

One reason you should have animation is that it can help focus a user’s attention to a specific part of the page. This usually happens when clicking onto a photo gallery, where the rest of the page then may darken which naturally draws your attention on the gallery itself.

Another use of animation  on a website can be to help provide hints to the user. For instance when visiting the New World Site, the site provides a loading animation and then a border animation around a button containing the text explore. This functionality wouldn’t be obvious without the animation involved.

Animations can also help provide confirmation that an action has taken place or to display that the interface is working. The example that often reoccurs from website to website is the loading bars and animations that display while a page is loading, the primary example being the dots circling as a page refreshes.